Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what promises, what dazzling things to come?a new alchemy that may one day turn the basest of creatures into genetic gold. That alchemy is already capable of making new drugs like the antiviral agent interferon, a possible weapon with which to attack cancer. In the future, it may produce vaccines against hepatitis and malaria; miracle products like low-calorie sugar; hardy self-fertilizing food crops that could usher in a new "green revolution"; fuels, plastics and other industrial chemicals, out of civilization's wastes; mining and refining processes to relieve Malthusian anxieties about a future without sufficient raw materials...
...able to audit only 2.02% of the returns. The 2,267 cases it recommended for criminal prosecution in 1980 represented fewer than three out of every 100,000 individual returns and was well below the number of potential cases that could be brought against tax cheaters. Says former IRS Agent Philip Storrer: "The agency is falling further and further behind in their audits. They don't have a large force, and they are in serious trouble...
Szaro's then-agent and now-business associate Jim deHart recalls one of the highlights of Szaro's pro football career: "Richie was a left-footed kicker, you know, and that season (1977) he'd hurt his left foot so badly he had to kick with his right one. He won a game for the Saints on Monday Night Football using his right foot. He's probably the only one who ever did that--the only one on Monday Night Football, anyway...
Upon reading of the $50,000 first-year salaries offered to some graduates of Stanford and Harvard Business Schools, many observers have compared the intense bidding for graduates of the nation's more prestigious business schools to the high-priced baseball free agent market. If this analogy is an apt one, then Exxon's Max McCreery is the MBA market's George Steinbrenner. As chief corporate recruiter for Exxon's New York headquarters, McCreery can offer prospective executives the same inducements the Yankee owner dangles before baseball stars--a high salary, a successful employer, and a name almost synonomous with...
...representative of the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta last week met with officials in Minnesota. Their preliminary investigation did not reveal evidence of a communicable disease, an inherited malady or exposure to a noxious agent. The mysterious deaths have, however, had an easily identifiable side effect: an increase in homesickness Says Si Thao, an interpreter for Lue Thao's widow: "She has no skills, no education and she cannot speak English Now she has no husband. All she wants to do is go back to Laos...